and I don’t think this is just insensitivity to the scope of 3^^^^^3.
Nope, unless they have an arbitrary discontinuity in their valuation of harm it’s really just scope insensitivy, 3^^^^^3 is that big. Quibbling about a few orders of magnitude of their caring about dust specks (“dust specks” just means the smallest harm they care about at all) and torture is a waste of time, they could consider torture a billion times worse than they do and it wouldn’t change anything.
It’s another matter to volunteer to be dust-specked to save someone from torture, the personal satisfaction from having done so might very well outweigh the inconvenience. But if you choose for them and they never learn about it they don’t get that satisfaction.
Nope, unless they have an arbitrary discontinuity in their valuation of harm it’s really just scope insensitivy, 3^^^^^3 is that big. Quibbling about a few orders of magnitude of their caring about dust specks (“dust specks” just means the smallest harm they care about at all) and torture is a waste of time, they could consider torture a billion times worse than they do and it wouldn’t change anything.
It’s another matter to volunteer to be dust-specked to save someone from torture, the personal satisfaction from having done so might very well outweigh the inconvenience. But if you choose for them and they never learn about it they don’t get that satisfaction.